Start Menu 7: Replace The Standard Windows Start Menu With Something Better

Start Menu 7 is a new piece of software which replaces the standard Windows Start Menu.

Start Menu 7 key features:

• The list of menu items is alphabetically sorted, so you can easily find any program or command by its name.
• Open any location on your PC with a single click.
• You can create, modify, and reorder items in Start Menu 7. So it’s easy to create a list of the most used locations, popular directories, and virtual folders to access them with a single click.
• There is a special Run button to access seldom used locations without adding them into menu.
• Start Menu 7 has a customizable Power Buttons panel.
• With Power Timer feature you can delay any of power management operations.

Currently there is a free version of the software, but you can also buy the pro version which has even more added features.

Tap Tap Love: Bubble Wrap iPhone Game Rip Off

We received a very interesting tweet today suggesting that we take a look at Tap Tap Love. Tap Tap Love is a new game on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Tap Tap Love is exactly the same as a previously popular game in the App Store, that game was Bubble Wrap.

Bubble Wrap and Tap Tap Love are games in which the user just tries to pop as many bubble or hearts as possible in an alotted time. Currently Tap Tap Love is priced at $0.99 and Im really not too sure they are going to sell many copies, especially when I can get Bubble Wrap for FREE!

Hex Colour Charts

When you’re adding a color to your web page with HTML, sometimes you can just type in the name of the color. But more often than not, you’ll need to use what’s called the hex code, which is something that the browser will be able to understand. Choose a color from the list below and look to its left to get the hex code. If we wanted our background to be red, for example, we’d type bgcolor=”#FF0000″. Try it out!

Colors

How to Clear Your Cache in Firefox

The more time you spend online, the bigger your cache will get. Each time you visit a Web site, Firefox captures data from that page and stores for the next time you visit that Web site. Instead of allowing your browser to use up a great deal of memory, you can clear your cache periodically in Firefox.

Clear Your Cache in Firefox

1. Open the Firefox browser and navigate to the Tools menu (for Windows users) or the Firefox menu (for Mac users).
2. View the drop down menu display and choose Options (for Windows) or Preferences (for Macs). A new dialog box will appear.
3. Click the Privacy icon to get to the cache options. Now you can click the ‘Clear Now’ button.
4. Watch for a drop down box to appear with numerous checkable boxes. Check ‘Cache’ and press the ‘Clear Private Data Now’ button.
5. Press the ‘OK’ button (Windows) or simply close the preferences box (Mac). Your cache will now be clear.

Opera Mini 5 Beta Reviewers Guide

Brizzly iPhone Application Is Now Available

Brizzly, a web-based Twitter client that has much more features than the twitter website, is  releasing its  iPhone app.It includes few new features when compared to its web version.

This Brizzly iPhone app is  simple in layout and incorporates features that are common among other twitter client for iPhone.This app can  handle multiple accounts,  supports lists, mentions and DMs etc. Links that you add gets  shortened too. Altogether an app with all basic features one would expect it to deliver.

Feature of Brizzly for iPhone includes :

• Brizzly Guide support with user-editable trends & news explanations
• support for multiple Twitter accounts
• lists (supports & syncs to Twitter lists, Brizzly.com)
• upload photos to Brizzly Pics & Flickr
• saved searches sync with Twitter & Brizzly.com
• classic-style RTs
• infinite scrolling
• custom tabs
• respects muting from Brizzly.com
• geolocation sharing

How to Design User Interface for iPad Applications

Matt Legend Gemmell held a 6-hour workshop at NSConference in both the UK and USA recently, focusing on software design and user experience.

Predictably, an extremely popular topic was the iPad, and how to approach the design of iPad applications. He gave a 90-minute presentation on the subject to start each workshop, and he is very kind to share some of his observations of iPad Application Design.

This article is about the user interface conventions and considerations which apply to creating software for the iPad platform and touch-screen tablet devices in general. It is not a technical discussion of iPad-related APIs. This is an excellent article for designers and application developers. I am sure you will find it useful too.

Opera Mini 5 Beta For Android

Opera Mini is already one of the most popular mobile browsers in he world, but with the new version 5 they are trying to push the envelope.

The biggest change in Opera Mini 5 is probably the introduction of tabbed browsing — a must, given that just about every default smartphone browser supports it out of the box at this point.

Some of the other big new features:

• Speed Dial: Gives you one-touch access to 9 of your favorite sites.
• Password Manager
• Opera Link: Syncs your bookmarks (and Speed Dial) between your handset and your desktop (be it that you’re running Opera on your desktop, that is)

How To Clear Your Cache in Google Chrome

Google Chrome is one of the most popular browsers available, even though it has only been around for a year or so. A lot of people have been asking how to clear their cache in Google Chrome. Here is the step by step guide:

1. Once your browser is open, select the tools menu. (the spanner(UK) / wrench(US) in the upper-right corner) and select Options.
2. Select Clear Browsing data….
3. Select the Empty the cache checkbox.
4. If you do not wish to delete cookies, etc., remove checks from them in the list.
5. Select the period of time for which you wish to delete cached information using the Clear data from this period: dropdown menu. (If in doubt select Everything).
6. Click the Clear Browsing Data button.

Palm Releases WebOS PDK. Good News for WebOS Platform

Palm has recently released the public beta of the webOS PDK. The news was announced during the Game Developers Conference and promises to let “developers use C and C++ alongside the web technologies that power the SDK and mix them seamlessly within a single app.”

Keep reading to check out the full press release…

Read [Palm Developer Center] Via [Business Wire]

Palm webOS PDK Public Beta Now Available

Palm Demonstrates New Games at Game Developers Conference

Game Developers Conference 2010
SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Game Developers Conference (GDC) – Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) today announced that a public beta version of the Palm® webOS™ Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) is now available at the Palm Developer Center (developer.palm.com). Palm is demonstrating new games from early PDK developers in its booth at GDC (No. 2016).

“It’s quite difficult to make a great phone that’s also an outstanding gaming platform; Palm has been successful delivering both.”
The PDK complements the Palm webOS Software Development Kit (SDK), letting developers use C and C++ alongside the web technologies that power the SDK and mix them seamlessly within a single app. The PDK enables new functionality, including immersive 3D graphics, and gives developers who have built games for other platforms an easy way to bring their titles to the webOS platform. Developers can download the beta PDK and start developing today, but distribution of games built with the beta PDK will require functionality provided in an upcoming Palm webOS update.

“Palm webOS is the go-to platform for great games on two of the three leading carrier networks,” said Katie Mitic, senior vice president, Product Marketing, Palm, Inc. “We have both the developer tools and the hardware necessary for a world-class gaming experience, and an impressive portfolio of webOS game titles from top-notch developers to show for it.”

At CES in January, Palm introduced 12 games built by four leading developers with early access to the PDK:

“Asphalt 5” (Gameloft)
“Brain Challenge®” (Gameloft)
“Glyder 2” (Glu Mobile)
“Let’s Golf!” (Gameloft)
“MONOPOLY” (EA Mobile™)
“Need for Speed™ Undercover” (EA Mobile)
“SCRABBLE” (EA Mobile)
“Sudoku” (EA Mobile)
“Tetris®” (EA Mobile)
“The Oregon Trail” (Gameloft)
“The Sims™ 3” (EA Mobile)
“X-Plane” (Laminar Research)

Since then, more than 20 exciting webOS titles have been launched by these early-access developers:

“Apollo” (Laminar Research)
“Assassin’s Creed™ – Altair’s Chronicles” (Gameloft)
“Brothers In Arms®: Hour of Heroes” (Gameloft)
“Castle of Magic” (Gameloft)
“Deer Hunter 3D” (Glu Mobile)
“Dungeon Hunter” (Gameloft)
“Earthworm Jim” (Gameloft)
“Gangstar: West Coast Hustle” (Gameloft)
“Giant Fighting Robots” (Laminar Research)
“Guitar Hero 5 Mobile” (Glu Mobile)
“Hero of Sparta” (Gameloft)
“Real Soccer 2010” (Gameloft)
“Real Tennis” (Gameloft)
“World Series of Poker: Hold’em Legend” (Glu Mobile)
“X-Plane Airliner” (Laminar Research)
“X-Plane Carrier” (Laminar Research)
“X-Plane Extreme” (Laminar Research)
“X-Plane Glider” (Laminar Research)
“X-Plane Helicopter” (Laminar Research)
“X-Plane Racing” (Laminar Research)
“X-Plane Space Shuttle” (Laminar Research)

“The Palm webOS PDK is extremely powerful and far-reaching, as evidenced by the number of titles we’ve been able to bring to the webOS platform in a very short time,” said Baudouin Corman, vice president of publishing, Americas, Gameloft. “It’s quite difficult to make a great phone that’s also an outstanding gaming platform; Palm has been successful delivering both.”

More information about the beta PDK is available at the Palm Developer Center (developer.palm.com). More information about games for Palm webOS is available at www.palm.com/applications.

About Palm, Inc.

Palm, Inc. creates intuitive and powerful mobile experiences that enable consumers and businesses to connect to their information in more useful and usable ways. The company’s groundbreaking Palm® webOS™ platform, designed exclusively for mobile application, introduces true multitasking and Palm Synergy™, which brings your information from the many places it resides into a single, more comprehensive view of your life.

Palm products are sold through select Internet, retail, reseller and wireless operator channels, and at the Palm online store (www.palm.com/store).

More information about Palm, Inc. is available at www.palm.com.

Palm, Synergy, and webOS are trademarks of Palm, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.

Benq MID S6 Touchscreen Portable Laptop

BenQ S6 is a high-end mini touch-screen computer created for wireless communication and high-speed Internet access, sporting a 4.8-inch widescreen display of 800 x 480 resolution, and measuring 6.2 x 3.5 x 0.9 inches at 370 grams.

It is powered by the 800MHz Intel Atom processing technology with low-power consumption, providing a longer battery life, and uses an advanced user interface accessible via the touch-sensitive screen with motion-based finger actions.

In addition, the mini touch-screen computer supports highs-speed 3.5G, full HTTP, WLAN, email, multimedia playing, and others, allowing you to tap on the icons, rotate the handset to enable the landscape view, resize web pages, quick shake for viewing thumbnails of all open files, swipe to flip through pictures, and drag images with the finger to attach them to your emails.

You can send files via Bluetooth, manage Office documents, talk on the built-in microphone, listen to the music using headphones, store 2GB of content on the 2GB Solid State Drive, and upload files from your PC via the miniUSB port.

How To Reset My Blackberry

Sometimes when you use the BlackBerry there are several problems like can not access files and you need to reset it. There are 3 choice how to reset your BlackBerry: soft, double-soft and hard reset and all of the them has different function.

1. Soft Reset
Just press ALT+Right SHIFT (CAP)+DELETE

2. DOUBLE-Soft Reset
It will stop all application on Blackberry and it’s pretty same with hard reset but the different is only the TIMING. Just do Soft reset and display will be black/blank. After the display is not black anymore press ALT+Right SHIFT (CAP)+DELETE again and the display will be blank. The sandclock will show up and wait untilBlackBerry ready to use.

3. Hard Reset
It’s so simple, just release the battery for 30 seconds and tide again. The BlackBerry will boot from the beginning. This is the first step if something wrong with network, software or hardware.